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In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]
1975Chris Cummings, Canadian singer-songwriter[†]
Christopher Allen Thomas Cummings is a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he has released five studio albums, one compilation album, and one extended play. Several of his singles have charted on the Canadian country charts, including the Number One hits "Sure Enough" and "The Kind of Heart That Breaks".
1975East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.[†]
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and the outer islands of Atauro and Jaco. Timor-Leste shares a land border with Indonesia to the west, and Australia is the country's southern neighbour, across the Timor Sea. The country's size is 14,950 square kilometres (5,770 sq mi). Dili, on the north coast of Timor, is its capital and largest city.
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TV personality David Frost buys exclusive rights to 'TV memoirs' of Richard Nixon (M)
Royal Victoria Hospital (Belfast, N Ireland) doctors, headed by Dr J F Pantridge, have developed lightweight portable defibrillator that cardiologists believe may provide major new tool in delivering emergency care to more persons who suffer heart attacks at home or at work; new defibrillators, which play crucial role in correcting ventricular fibrillation, abnormality in heart rhythm that kills suddenly, weigh 7 pounds, compared with 35 pounds for conventional units; 50 lightweight defibrillators costing $1,200 each will be flown to US for extensive testing; Dr Richard S Crampton of Univ of Virginia Med School (Charlottesville), says new defibrillator has tremendous potential application; says device ought to be on every plane, train, bus, at airports and stations; Pantridge expresses hope that smaller units will reduce number of sudden deaths from heart attacks; Univ of Washington Drs William A Schaffer and Leonard A Cobb rept in New England Journal of Medicine that over 51-mo period, 234 patients who experienced ventricular fibrillation outside hospital in Seattle were successfully resuscitated by trained citizens; rept that there is still no clear understanding of mechanisms that initiate ventricular fibrillation; Dr James V Warren of Ohio State Univ Coll of Medicine notes in same med journal that there is increasing evidence that many people who die suddenly do not exhibit evidence of heart attack (L)
Assessment of recent Orange County (NY) decision to refuse to appropriate additional funds for welfare services in action aimed at forcing Fed takeover of local welfare costs notes Orange County supports similar situation in Plumas County (Calif); Plumas County cause is being argued in Calif sup Ct (S)
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Munic Assistance Corp bd member repts that corp is likely to press again for Fed help, despite last wk's rebuff in Washington, in effort to sell $1-billion in bonds next mo; maintains some sort of 'legal guarantee or backing' of bonds is necessary in addition to Fed officials' words of encouragement for city's recent efforts to economize and restore investor confidence in corp's bonds; corp finance chmn Felix G Rohatyn comments (M)
Communists open fire on crowd of hostile Roman Catholics in Braga, Aug 10, wounding 20 persons, 3 of them seriously; outbreak of violence is worst in a month-long series of clashes between Communists and anti-Communists in northern Portugal; Roman Catholics marched in Braga sts following strong speech by Abp Francisco Maria da Silva, in which he called Communist party the 'enemy of religion'; when Catholics passed Communist hq, they exchanged heated words and began to pelt each other with stones; Communists opened fire with automatic weapons and shotguns; Portuguese troops rushed to scene and prevented Catholics from burning down hq; Communist party leader Alvaro Cunhal denounces what he describes as anti-Communist 'terrorism' and calls for law and order as main task for new Govt; Communist party holds news conf outside Lisbon; Cunhal explains 3 main tasks of new Govt; map (M)
SEC Comr A A Sommer Jr warns that as result of NYC's fiscal crisis, comm will consider bringing suit against municipalities that fail to disclose 'unfortunate circumstances that afflict them' when they are selling bonds; asserts he is particularly disturbed by statement in June by Controller Harrison J Goldin that city had 'hidden deficit' that might amount to $600-million; notes comm is not contemplating action against NYC now (S)
USN sources in San Diego, Calif, rept Navy Seal commandos have been trained for possible assignment to Amer embassies in countries plagued by guerrila terrorism; Seals, specially-trained counterinsurgency forces, were active in Vietnam; now total about 300, half in team at San Diego and half in team at Little Creek, Va; 'Seals' is acronym for 'sea-air-land,' denoting scope of operations; Comdr Daniel Hendrickson, other Navy sources comment on Seals mission, training and history (M)
Illus of Pres Ford shaking hands with Vietnamese refugees, Ft Chaffee (Ark)